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quarter of a mile off. In spite of his great 

 weight and cumbersome, heavy-looking 

 gait, he climbed up the steep bluff with ease 

 and even agility, and when he had reached 

 the ridge stood and looked back at us for a 

 moment; while so doing he held his head 

 high up, and at that distance his great 

 shaggy 7 mane and huge fore-quarter made 

 him look like a lion. In another second he 

 again turned away and made off; and, be- 

 ing evidently very shy and accustomed to 

 being harassed by hunters, must have 

 travelled a long distance before stopping, for 

 we followed his trail for some miles until it 

 got on such hard, dry ground that his hoofs 

 did not leave a scrape in the soil, and yet 

 did not again catch so much as a glimpse 

 of him. 



Soon after leaving his trail we came out 

 on the great, broken prairies that lie far 

 back from the river. These are by no 

 means everywhere level. A flat space of a 

 mile or two will be bounded by a low cliff 

 or a row of small round-topped buttes; or 



